An American fugitive who stopped his death and fled to Scotland to avoid justice, was convicted of rape in the United States.
Nicholas Rossi, who appeared in court under his second name, Nicholas Alahwearian, denied all the allegations.
The case is related to an attack in Salt Lake County, but he still faces another test for an alleged rape in Utah County, which is scheduled for September.
It took more than eight hours for four men and four women gamblers to reach their decision. Rossi will be sentenced on October 20 and will face five years behind bars.
Rossi, who was earlier joking with his legal team, did not show any feeling as the verdict was read.
District Attorney Sim Gill of Salt Lake County said: “We are grateful to the survivor in this case that after years of this attack, for the desire to come forward.
“We appreciate his patience because we worked to bring the defendant back to Salt Lake County to get this test and he could get justice.
“To take the stand, he took courage and bravery and held him accountable to face his attacker.”
The court had heard from Rosie, a woman raped in Salt Lake County – called MS.
He said that he initially met online in 2008, started dating and continued after two weeks.
He said Rossi’s behavior soon changed, that he was controlled, borrowed money from him, did not let him drive his car and criticized his clothes.
The court heard that the woman decided to end the relationship, the point at which Rossi pushed her to bed in her apartment and raped her.
Raksha claimed that the case was like a “puzzle from a thrift shop” because the pieces are missing and there is no complete picture.
Getty imagesHe claimed that MS was angry after losing money on the engagement rings and after 13 years, after seeing Rossi in the news, he talked about rape allegations.
The court then heard the woman Rossi, she is accused of raping her apartment in Orem, Utah County, who appeared as a witness in the current case – referred to as KP.
KP said she met Rossi on the social networking site MySpace in August 2008 when she was 21, and she started a small relationship.
She told the court on one occasion, she woke up in Rossi’s apartment that she spent $ 400 (£ 296) on the computer using her credit card details without any permission.
Rossi said he would pay him back but after the end of the relationship, admitted that he had no money.
He said that he again started acting a sex on himself and when he tried to leave, Rossi pulled his clothes down and pinned him on a couch or other piece of furniture before raping her.
Rossi’s test for KP’s alleged rape is going to start in Utah County next month, expected to last two weeks.
Who is Nicholas Rossi?
Nicolas Rossi was born in 1987 as Nicholas Alahvardian – Rossi was his half -father’s name.
As part of the investigation for credit card fraud, he stopped his death in 2020 and fled to America in an attempt to escape justice.
Officials suspected that he was somewhere in Britain.
The same year, Rossi married his wife Miranda in Bristol.
He attracted the attention of the British Press in December 2021 when he was arrested in the Kovid ward of a hospital in Glasgow.
Employees had recognized their maghot and specific tattoos with an interpol desired notice – but Rossi claimed that he was a victim of wrong identity and his name was Arthur Night, an Irish -birth orphan that was never in the US.
PA mediaLegal proceedings began, but Rossi’s antics were largely dragged.
He created a series of appearances in court in a wheelchair, wearing a three-tukra suit and an oxygen mask in the wheelchair, maintaining his claim of incorrect identity.
Rossi insisted that he was given his specific tattoos, while he was unconscious in the Glasgow Hospital, trying to frame him.
When asked by journalists, he has been unable to provide birth certificate or passport.
He dismissed several lawyers, before a sheriff ruled he was Nicholas Rossi, and his wrong identity claim was “impossible” and fictional “.
In September 2023, an order provided by the Justice Secretary of Scotland to the US was signed to give him an order, and he returned to the US in January 2024 after losing his final appeal.
During a bail hearing at Salt Lake City last October, Rossi first admitted that he and aka Arthur Knight were the same person.
He refused to escape to Britain to avoid arrest, claiming that he had left the country and later used a surname to avoid dangers.
